December 11, 2026 · Sydney, Australia. Times are local. The program is tentative and subject to change.
The workshop features invited talks (25-min talk + 5-min Q&A), two 60-minute poster sessions, a 50-minute panel discussion, a 50-minute roundtable on lab-in-the-loop deployment bottlenecks, and two 40-minute spotlight sessions showcasing 3–4 accepted papers each.
| Time | Session | Speaker / Details |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 – 9:10 | Opening Remarks — Organizers: motivation & workshop goals | |
| 9:10 – 10:10 | Invited Talks I | |
| 9:10 – 9:40 | Jure Leskovec Professor, Stanford University |
Biomedical AI agents; knowledge graphs |
| 9:40 – 10:10 | Maria Brbić Assistant Professor, EPFL |
Foundation models and agents for cell biology |
| 10:10 – 10:50 | Spotlight I — 3–4 accepted papers | |
| 10:50 – 11:40 | Panel Discussion — Generalist vs. specialist & “how to build” | |
| Marinka Zitnik Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School | Agentic AI for biology, medicine | |
| Eli Carrami Staff Research Scientist, Isomorphic Labs | AI for drug discovery (industry deployment) | |
| Tommaso Biancalani SVP, Generative Biology, Lila Sciences | Lab-in-the-loop AI; foundation models for biology | |
| 11:50 – 12:20 | Lunch Break — Lunch provided | |
| 12:20 – 13:20 | Poster Session I — Accepted papers | |
| 13:20 – 14:20 | Invited Talks II | |
| 13:20 – 13:50 | Heng Ji Professor, UIUC |
Agentic AI for science; LLM reasoning over scientific knowledge |
| 13:50 – 14:20 | Joy Jiao Life Sciences Research Lead, OpenAI |
Agentic AI for life sciences |
| 14:20 – 15:00 | Spotlight II — 3–4 accepted papers | |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Invited Talks III | |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Michelle Lee CEO & Founder, Medra AI | Physical-AI scientist platform; robotic closed-loop biology |
| 15:30 – 16:20 | Roundtable — Lab-in-the-loop & deployment bottlenecks (speakers, panelists, audience, organizers) | |
| 16:20 – 17:20 | Poster Session II — Accepted papers | |
| 17:20 – 17:30 | Closing Remarks — Organizers: conclusions & outlook | |